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This IHT Story on a project converting old tapes to digital recordings, since the tape on which it was originally recorded was starting to disintegrate that is being done at poetry centers around the United States.
\”Some of them already have to be cut and spliced because they are very fragile or even have breaks in them,\” Veskrna said. \”Age isn\’t the only problem. A lot of the tape stock was less than ideal to start with. Companies were experimenting with chemical formulas used to make magnetic tape, and some of those experiments were less than successful in terms of longevity. If these recordings aren\’t transferred to other formats soon, we could lose quite a lot of them forever.\”
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